Yin Style/Kripalu Yoga YTT

(Thank you Kripalu YTT November/January 2011 students for the inspiration)

Two blocks, blanket, pillow

1. Open the heart
---to new opportunities-new relationships-to the truth-to the unknown
2. Soften into back
---allow others to hold you/support you-breathe into back body
3. What does it mean to fully soften into a posture?

Supine 5-point star
---full body stretch
1/2 Frog
Pump to Bujangasana (Cobra) to Sphnix
Garbasana (child)
---Walk hands right/left (hold)
Table (rock hips side to side)
Anahatasana (melting Heart)-
Table
Thread the Needle w/arms
---Right/Left-pause
Meditation in motion
Sukasana (one leg in front of other-fold forward/twist)
Open heart
supported bridge (setu bandasana) with block
---raise legs(inversion)- shake legs-roll out ankles
Knees to chest-hug-1 affirmation
Full body stretch
Wind relieving pose (pavanmuktasana)
---right/left-head to knee
Supine Spinal twist (matsyendrasana)
Meditation in motion
Shavasana
Restorative
(open heart with block/supine baddha konasana) or pillow under knees
1-minute sit-Metta

Poem- Dana Faulds…Just For Now

Go In and In
Be the space
Between two cells
The vast resounding
Silence in which spirit dwells
Go in and in
Turn away from nothing that you find

Poem...Dana Faulds...Just For Now

Just for Now, without asking how, let yourself sink into stillness.
Just for now,
lay down the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders.
Feel the earth receive you, and, and the infinite expanse of the sky grow even wider as your awareness reaches up to meet it.
Just for now, allow a wave of breath to enliven your experience.
Breathe out what ever blocks you from the truth.
Just for now,
be boundless, free,
with awakened energy tingling in your hands and feet.
Drink in the possibility of being who and what you really are.
So fully alive that the world looks different, newly born and vibrant,
just for now

Music Play List (with headphones):
- Talisman….Air
- I know you are but what am I?…Mogwai
- Wild Tigers I have known…Emily jane White
- Summer Fog…The Album Leaf
- New Moon (the Meadow)…Alexandre Desplat
- Upward Over the Mountain…Iron and Wine
- Track 2…I don’t know the artist?
- Heartbeats…jose Gonzalez
- Junesong…Talk Demonic
- My Ladys House…Iron and wine
- Vermillion…The Album Leaf
- Breathe Me…Sia
- Blank Pages…The Album Leaf
- Possibility…Lykke Li
- We Have the map to the piano…Mum
- Track 4…Snatam Kaur
- Ram Chant…Vandita